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CLIENT EARTH

Martin Goodman James Thornton

Building an Ecological Civilization

Environmental lawyer James Thornton sees the Earth as his client. The organisation he founded in 2007, ClientEarth, uses advocacy, litigation, and research to address the greatest challenges of our time including biodiversity loss, climate change, and toxic chemicals. It now has sixty lawyers working full-time finding, taking on, and winning cases across a broad spectrum. They are, for instance, blocking Scandinavian attempts to recommence whaling, winning against the UK government for breach of the Air Quality laws, reforming the European Fisheries Policy, stopping new coal-fired stations being built in Poland, and shutting down illegal forestry in central Africa.

CLIENT EARTH draws on a wide range of interviews with leading lawyers, scholars, European Commissioners, government ministers, business leaders, fisheries specialists, environmental activists, philanthropists, and many regular stakeholders who have learned to use the law to protect their own environments. It provides inspiration from the chain of victories already won in what may be the most compelling legal drama ever played out in the courts: the Earth and its people versus the major polluters and fossil-fuel giants.

James Thornton is an environmental lawyer and writer. He is the founding CEO of ClientEarth, a not-for-profit environmental-law organisation.. The New Statesman named James as one of ten people who could change the world.
Martin Goodman is the author of nine books of fiction and nonfiction. He holds the chair of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, where he is director of the Philip Larkin Centre for Poetry and Creative Writing.

With a foreword by Brian Eno.

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Book Published 2017-05-01 by Scribe Publications

Comments

In den vergangenen drei Jahren hat er allein in deutschen Staedten mit der Deutschen Umwelthilfe als Partner einundzwanzig europaeische Prozesse zur Einhaltung der Stickoxidgrenzwerte eingeleitet, vierunddreissig weiteren Staedten steht eine Klage ins Haus. (...) In Berlin hat die Firma im Herbst ein Buero eroeffnet, neben Bruessel das wichtigste in Europa. Eine strategische Entscheidung, sagt Thornton, denn nur in den Laendern, wo ClientEarth auch Berater sitzen hat, kann man als Klaeger auftreten. In Deutschland muss er noch drei Jahre warten, bis er die Zulassung erhaelt.